Black Ice News

By community request, I've uploaded this build earlier than I'd planned, just so y'all can get the new stuff as soon as possible!

• Added a very special unique item reward to the Machiavelli's Pizza questline
  
• Added World Shortcut Tele-Porters - to/from the Arcade, find them in the world to unlock them
  
• Added (large) XP rewards to all Missions
  
• AI which are blocked by a player or AI while spawning will now try to spawn on another spawn point
  
• Mission rewarded credits now properly account for game difficulty level
  
• Mission inbox sorting now prioritizes Unread vs objectives
  
• Added a Total Unlocks progress bar in the unlock screen
  
• Improved framerate dramatically when Loot Find powerups are nearby
  
• Other minor framerate improvements (for ESD executables etc)
  
• Extra Charges on weapons which reload an entire clip now increase the reloaded amount too, so that you always reload the whole clip
  
• Fixed gambling shop color again
  
• Added a few new loading screen backgrounds, which now are chosen randomly
  
• Quests, Courier missions, and Ambushes now try to drop the reward directly in your inventory, then cache, then on the ground as a last resort
  
• Improved AI pathing in the crane area near Oshiro
  
• Fixed courier missions not showing the countdown timer properly
  

A fairly hefty weekly patch for y'all! This one is aimed at making the inbox easier to navigate, as well as fixing a few bugs I found in the big multiplayer night we had on PetePlaysTheGames twitch channel.

• Added new Student Loans quest which unlocks when you hack a level 25+ server
  
• New Quarkus area - not open for hacking yet, but please let us know if you like how it looks!
  
• Inbox update - filtering by Inbox (important), Tracked, and Archive. Autosorting. Prettier, added tooltips to icons.
  
• Increased bitcred rewards for all early quests significantly
  
• The Gambling shop now drops a bunch of money instead of nothing
  
• Added a progress bar to each tab of the Unlocks page
  
• Spend bitcreds bounty amount reduced
  
• Multiplayer - +XP% per person increased to 15% from 10, share radius increased from 75 to 100m
  
• Added an Upgrade Rarity machine to the volcano secret room
  
• Raidseekers now have their own icon to differentiate that they spread vulnerabilities
  
• Glide jump now properly glides on first jump if the button is held down
  
• Accelerating Fire now increases RAM cost as the gun heats up
  
• Laugh Now, Cry Laser now decays over time, and does not count damage from hazards like Lava
  
• Doubled +Weapon Damage (flat) scaling with level to help it compete at higher level
  
• Forward-firing disc machineguns drop rate doubled
  
• Shotguns, Snipers, and Pulse weapons now have uncapped final Attack Speed (but still generate with the same base attack speed, to preserve their feel)
  
• Shotgun accuracy cap increased from 70 to 85
  
• Disco Deathballs and items with low cooldowns and no charges can no longer have the When Hit Cooldown affix
  
• Added a 1 second cooldown to the When Hit Cooldown affix
  
• Extra Projectiles affix now normalizes damage to +25% total dps per extra projectile (this is a nerf for low projectile count weapons, but a buff for high ones)
  
• Destroy Mines bounty now doesn't happen till higher level
  
• Sentries now say what they are when you mouseover them
  
• Fixed the gambling shop/secret arcade shop from having the wrong colors
  
• Fixed the cache in the volcano secret shop from being too big, added a cache to the cavern shop
  
• Fixed damage bounties overflow
  
• Fixed an issue where the Enemies Remaining text wouldn't show up after you'd done the volcano boss fight
  
• Optimized performance for aoe Zone abilities from Snails, players, etc. Fixed targeting issue.
  
• Fixed other player icons not showing up on the map in multiplayer depending on who joined when
  
• Fixed Ride the Glide achievement triggering too early
  
• Rezigen server now can be hacked from the very top
  
• Fixed the map clipping through the wall in the arcade
  

• Improved Healbat healing amount
  
• Improved Chargebat charge speed and damage
  
• Fixed all flying AI from wobbling and not acting when too close
  
• Minor performance improvements
  
• Vortex grenade damage rebalanced downward
  
• Invalid items can no longer have their rarity upgraded in the arcade machine
  
• Removed chromatic keyboard support (the plugin was no longer being updated)
  
• Disabled sorting inventory during choice cube item choice, to prevent an exploit
  
• All items now come off cooldown when you die
  
• Players will respawn close to where they died more often (it only falls back to quest progress when you load in the first time)
  
• Epic items in the world now show properly orange instead of dark yellow
  
• Fixed chromatic aberration issue
  
• Fixed Email buttons opening the wrong email when filtered
  
• Missions which have a bitcred penalty will now take all your bitcreds if they try to take more than you have, instead of none
  
• Fixed the Cache Waypoint in the tutorial not going away if you skip the tutorial in that phase
  
• Fixed a systemic issue causing waypoints to not disappear
  
• Untracking a quest now untracks it in the in-game gui too